National Republican., 1887-05-28
Retire the Free Traders.

Without in any manner either indorsing
or accepting Mr.. Henry w. Grady's efllor-
escent ideas about the "new south,n ex-
pressed in his after dinner speech at the
Union League Club, the NATIONAL REpUD-
LlcAN can speak Of ''new SOUTH" which
must not be confounded with the lgment
of Mr.. Grady's brain SO denomlnated.
The people of tue south deserve great
credit for what has been done there in the
past few years in the way OF industrial
development. They have displayed COM
meudable energy in securing the invest
ment OF northern capital to build up new
industries in the south and develop IT'S dor
mant we4lth, and, of course, they hay.
used their own capital : for the same pur-
pose.
The reason these resources Of the south
these mines Of coal and iron-were not
sooner worked was because of the preju-
dices and unwise action OF the southern
people. All the elements OF wealth that
are now being SO rapidly developed were
known to exist when the war closed, and
northern capital, largely in excess of any
that can now be secured, was ready and
anxious to invest, but was driven away
because 1t and its owners were not only uu-
welcome, but absolutely hateful to the
southern people.
So far at least as their money is con-
cerned this feeling Is gone; the south is
working hard to secure northern capital
and through 1t the development Of Its re-
sources. The southerners appreciate the
advantages that come from the opening
coal and iron mines, the erection OF cotton
mills and other manufacturing establish
ments, and see how they will share In the
benefits that flow from such enterprises.
But the south needs to learn one more
lesson on this subject. With the immense
development of manufacturing and mining
interests, and through that the creation of
home market and the diversihcation o,
agricultural productions, the south can no
longer afford to be represented In Congress
by free-trade theorists, whose theories II re-
duced 10 practice would destroy and undo
all that mas been done to advance the In
terests of that section.
AS matter Of fact, these theorists are
doing the south great injury now. They
retard growth and frighten capital that
would, but for them, add largely to the
already rapid rate of development. This is
fact that ought to be apparent to every
man In the south who has the ability to
think for himself.
Liberal as the north has been with It's In
vestments OF capital in the south, who can
say that 1t would not have been more liberal
had the attitude Of southern congressman
been dlfferentS Assurance OF protection for
investments is undeniably necessary, but
there can be no such assurance II the
methods Of Carlisle and the southern states
men who act with him are to prevail.
The south should at once discard seuJi-
ment, prejudice, and tradition from its
politics. All these have had too much
control, and they should be permitted to
have none In the future. Let the dead past
bury its dead, and live in the present should
be the political motto OF the people of that
section.
Whatever of growth and development has
come to the south has been the result OF
Republican tariff laws, enacted without the
aid and retained against the opposition OF
the Democratic free-trade theorists. The
people Of the south know this, and they
should retire these theorists TO private life,
and thus remove the constant menace of a
practically solid free trade delegation In
Congressfrom the south, continually threat
ening the existence OF the laws under
which the country is ilou ishing.